ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,005, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Secure remote commands to an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Christopher Valasek (Pittsburgh) and Graziano Giuseppe Misuraca (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed an AV, comprising a vehicle motive system comprising hardware to operate the AV; and an AV controller to autonomously or semi-autonomously control the vehicle motive system, the AV controller comprising a hardware platform comprising a processor circuit and a memory, and instructions encoded within the memory to: provide an operating system (OS), including a utility se...